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Art
In Mongolia they have a special singing called Throat Singing. The way of singing it is by using your throat to make the sound. It has a sound of two different sounds at the same time. They don't use their tough to make the sound. In Mongolian //khoomi// singing, carefully trained male voices produce harmonic overtones from the depth of the throat, releasing several notes at once. It is really hard to sing like that and they usually train doing that by calling the sheep. They have to do it every day. Mongolians in different places can speak different languages including: Finnish, Turkish, Kazak, Uzbek and Korean.

Throat Singing
Here is a video of Mongolian Throat Singing. media type="youtube" key="NOsGvs1FZDs" height="144" width="225" They Mongols also draw and paint to do art. They like to draw horses because horses in Mongolia is one of the people's pridest position. media type="youtube" key="_Kql7ItLK8k" height="244" width="325"5ch » Mongol tribal life

Housing
Yurts The Mongolian Houses are called Yurts or called a Gur. They use tree wood and they first build something like a fence in the shape of a circle. Then they start to have sticks of wood to connect from the fence to a higher level which makes a shape of a tents. On the top they use a circle shaped hoop of support the wood. After doing that, they just use a felt or canvas to cover it. The felt is made out of sheep wool.The last step is to use string and tie it around the yurt to keep the felt on and it won't fly off. That is how they make the Yurt. Here is a picture of what it looks like. This is what it looks like when it is being built.



In side the yurt looks like this:

In the Mongolian Yurts, they usually have a pole in the middle also to support the yurt. The floor inside the yurt is covered with carpets, fabric ect. In Mongolia winter is pretty cold so they have a heating stove. Inside the yurt is very small. Some of the houses have a bench around the side. I had been to one before and we had to be squished because there was a Mongolian performance in it. All of the Mongolian yurts in the outside is a steppe. A steppe is a land covered with grass. The people's animals live outside the yurt. Rules for the Gers: -When you enter, shut the door quickly after you enter -There is a pole in the middle of the yurt and go to the left side when you enter and don't go between the poles -If you are offered food, you have to accept and get it with your right hand. Even if you are full you have to try it -You can not say no if they give you something -You don't have to knock on the door to go in For Winter, the Mongolian use a heater which can also serve as a stove. When it is really hot in the Summer, they fold up the felt half way so they can feel the wind and have fresh air.

Clothing
Here is a video of traditional Mongolian Clothes. media type="youtube" key="TMQ1ivfHwow" height="244" width="325"

Mongolian people do like to where fully designed and colorful clothes. The people there do not where fancy clothes just on special days.... They wear fancy clothes on regular days tooo....

- Mongolian people both men and women, wear bronze or gold jewelry.. - The people like to wear necklaces and bracelets.. - All women and men wear leather boots -Mongols believed that their hairstyles should be like the wings of a eagle...

The shape of a hat....
If there is a cone shaped top of the hat (blue or red) and it has 32 stiching, that symbolize of the 32 Mongolian tribes... The middle ages of women and men wore summer hats that are made out of plush wet velvet upturned brim and brocaded pointed tops. The hat has a crowed with a fanciful knot. In ancient times it symbolized the power capable of frightening enemies. In summer Mongols wore either the hat or flat topped “toortsog” hat consisting of six gores. The toortsog had an upper and a lower part. The upper part was not one piece but was sewn from six separate pieces. Married women couldn't wear this hat only girls and men could wear these kind of hats. Women's holiday headwear was noted for it is original style and richness of adornment. It consisted of a holiday silk and velvet hat and a complete decorative set for the hair the lower part of the hat is made out from velvet and the upper part from red silk. The hair holder was covered with coral, pearl, and mother pearl. The Shanaavch is temporal adornment with little silver bells was fixed to the hair holder. The tolgoin boolt was a head dress usually made of silver and studded with a precious stone and semiprecious stones. Women's hats were more fashionable than men's, and the ribbons on them were decorated with turquoise.

The Del...
The Del is a loose calf-length tunic made of one piece of material. It has long sleeves, a high collar and buttons on the right shoulder. If they are not commercially produced from decorative stones or silver, and are narrow strips of cloth tied into knots. Each ethnic group living in Mongolia has its own individual Del, distinguished by its cut, color and trimming. These distinctions go unnoticed by foreigners but are obvious to Mongolians. Before Revolution, all social strata in Mongolia had their own manner of dressing. There are live stock breeders and they wore yellow dels with a cape thrown over it. There are basically three types of dels, each worn during a particular season. The “Dan Del” is made of light, thinks bright materials and is worn by women during the late spring and summer. The “terleg” is a slightly more padded version and both men and women. The winter Del is serious, padded tunic lined with sheep skin, or layers of row cotton. Dels have the same cut whether worn by men or women. Male dels are just wider and in more somber colors. The Del for everyday wear is gray, brown or some other dark color, if there is a holiday they wear a Del that is a bright blue, green or claret silk with a silk sash of contrasting color several meters long. The sash is not simply adornment. It also serves as a soft corset facilitating long riders on horse back. A Del has a wide, cup-shaped sleeves nicknamed “hooves”. There is a legend that the Manchu's introduced this style to make the Mongols the same as their horses. It is a highly useful feature of the Del protecting the hands from the cold and from injures while doing hard work. Also shape is the same golden and silver ingots. The khantaaz is a shorter traditional jacket, often made of silk, which is also buttoned to the side, and usually worn over the Del.

The boots...
The toes of boots are upturned, and several explanations have been offered for this cool style. If boots had upturned toes, at 1578 when Buddhism introduced to Mongolia, then this would be an example of religion using indigenous customs, beliefs etc. to support advance their own religion. Another explanation is that the upturned tip prevents a rider's feet from slipping out of the stirrups of the horse. However it's also true that boots are so thick and rigid that if they were flat, they would be almost impossible to walk in. these hefty boots are still worn in UB and are particularly popular in countryside. The boots are tall boots made from thick unbending leather “buligar” and the tops are decorated with leather appliqués. The right and left boots are the same shape. They do not have laces or zippers, making them easy and quick to slip on or off in a hurry. And they can be worn in all sessions with thick felt socks added in winter and removed in summer. Here is a good site for picture of the clothes in Mongolia: http://www.flickr.com/photos/devriese/275112204/



Annotated Bibliography
Halfgoku, "Youtube." __Mongolia Throat Singing__. 25 Nov. 2008. . You Tube was useful because it can show how the people sing and we can share how they do it. You Tube doesn't have any information of writing of Mongolia but it has videos to show.

HistoryGirl08"YouTube." __Mongolia Clothing__. 25 Nov. 2008. . This video was good because instead of searching on google in one by one pictures, they show you all in one video.

There is a site that talks about Mongolian clothes... It tells you about clothes.. [|Mongolia]... It is an online magazine and tells you a lot of really good info.

BigBunny06. "YouTube." __Mongolia Arts__. 25 Nov. 2008. . This video is good because art is an important part of the tribal living. Also same as the cloths, you can get a lot of the arts on just 1 video instead of a lot of pictures. That is why a video is good.

Smith, Mr. "Mongolian Clothings." __Mongolian Clothing__. 28 Nov. 2008. 28 Nov. 2008 . That is the site for the Mongolian Clothings...

"Google Images." __Mongolian Fashion__. 28 Nov. 2008. . This site is very useful because it has a lot of different interesting photos. It is because the people around the world can post pictures of Mongolian Fashion.

__Genghis Khan: Ruthless__. 1-64. This book is soooo good. It tells everything about the history and some things about the living. In the back of the book it also has a timeline of important events and a dictionary of the mongolian words.